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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. hunting and killing other animals for food;
[syn: predacious, predaceous]

2. living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain;
- Example: "predatory capitalists"
- Example: "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott
- Example: "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton
[syn: predaceous, predacious, predatory]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Predaceous \Pre*da"ceous\, a. [L. praeda prey. See Prey.]
   Living by prey; predatory. --Derham.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

predaceous
    adj 1: hunting and killing other animals for food [syn:
           predacious, predaceous]
    2: living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain;
       "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in
       which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S.
       Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological
       gangster"- W.E.Swinton [syn: predaceous, predacious,
       predatory]